/news/2010/05/10/innovative-marketing-strategies-that-can-help-attract-business/ Building and Construction News in Portland, Oregon and the Pacific Northwest Fri, 14 May 2010 20:38:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.6 /news/2010/05/10/innovative-marketing-strategies-that-can-help-attract-business/#comment-23173 Fri, 14 May 2010 20:38:31 +0000 /?p=53044#comment-23173 […] entice business to the area. This has been reported extensively in the Daily Journal of Commerce (here, here, here and here) over the past few […]

]]> /news/2010/05/10/innovative-marketing-strategies-that-can-help-attract-business/#comment-22605 Mon, 10 May 2010 21:13:49 +0000 /?p=53044#comment-22605 Those fees aren’t “income.” They are revenue. And at least some of the fees you are talking about that have been rolled back are SDCs (or system development charges). These fees are designed to recoup the financial impacts of new development. Under Oregon law they are a way for new growth to pay for its fair share. By rolling back these kind of fees the cities you talk about are simply transferring the burden for the impacts of new development from the developers (and eventually their customers) to the existing citizens of the city. In my opinion.

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